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YouGov’s daily poll for the Sun this morning had topline figures of CON 34%, LAB 39%, LDEM 11%, UKIP 12%. The five point Labour lead is pretty typical of what YouGov have been showing over the last fortnight. The full tabs are here.

Meanwhile Populus’s twice-weekly poll has topline figures of CON 32%, LAB 40%, LDEM 12%, UKIP 8%. Full tabs are here. This is the last Populus poll of the year. For YouGov there is one still to come (the weekly YouGov/Sunday Times poll) then they too stop for the Christmas period.

@Norbold
It would be good if AW could add in the last 4 results of 2012, although collectively I don’t think they really change the picture. Overall, the Lab lead has declined somewhat since the end of 2012 even though the current trend has been static for some time.

There is a handy graph on the latest voting intention figure ‘more’ which shows this did briefly happen at the start of 2012- Tories ahead of labour and over 40%. Plus at the start of the parliament both those scenarios were true for about 6 months.

That is my only doubt about the likelihood of a Lab overall majority because there was a circumstance then where it did happen. The rise of UKIP since makes this less likely but, I guess, not impossible with events over the next year.

“Why, though? No training or qualifications required to be an MP and no potentially life-changing decisions to be taken as an individual.”

OK then, compare them to an investment banker :p
Seriously, I want dedicated. professional MPs who only work as MPs.

Pay in this country (and I think around the world) is barking mad so you have to put some kind of peg in the ground, unless you think we can go to ‘from each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs’.